Oliver Onions, in full George Oliver Onions (born 1873, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 9, 1961, Aberystwyth, Wales), novelist and short-story writer whose first work to attract attention was The Story of Louie (1913), the last part of a trilogy later published as Whom God Has Sundered, in which he achieved a successful combination of poetry and realism. Of his other novels, the greatest success was perhaps The Story of Ragged Robyn (1945), a tale of 17th-century England. His Poor Man’s Tapestry (1946) earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Onions was married to the Welsh-born novelist Berta Ruck.

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(1872-1961). The English short-story writer and novelist Oliver Onions thrilled readers with his supernatural tales and shocked some of his contemporaries with his gruesomely realistic crime novels. He also experimented with other styles and genres. In 1946 his historical novel Poor Man’s Tapestry won the James Tait Black prize, one of Great Britain’s most distinguished literary awards.

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